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I've never been good at filling these things out, but here it goes. I like long walks in cold mountain air, preferably with snow on the ground. I enjoy drinking fine soda by the crackling fire, and deep tissue massage. I hope to one day grow up an become and astronaut, so I can fly to Venus to see if that's really where women come from. If it's true, I'll bring one back for you, too. Unless it's a dude you want, and then you're out of luck...sorry.
My favorite month is October, because Halloween is the best holiday ever! It allows me to openly proclaim my love and obsession with scary movies without being seen as some sort of lunatic. Okay, not too much of a lunatic.
I'm a huge fan of rock and metal music, and you'll often hear me blasting the control room speakers into oblivion every night during my show. My engineer doesn't like me very much, since he has to fix them. Sorry, Mike.

So, upon seeing this video and receiving said laughter, I decided I had to share it with you guys. Yes, it is a cute cat video, but it's also an inside-the-demented-mind kind of video. If you want to know what kind of twisted thoughts might be going on inside your pets' heads, this will be a good laugh for you.

Nili Brosh is being celebrated all this week as KLAQ's Guitar Shredder of the Week, because she's an insanely talented guitar player! It doesn't hurt that she's easy on the eyes, too.

Nili is recording her new solo album, and I'm looking forward to hearing it. It will also feature some amazing musicians on it, like Bryan Beller, who's the bass meister for The Aristocrats and Dethklok! He can play some amazing stuff.

This week's guitar shredder here at KLAQ is Nili Brosh. We saw a little of her performing with Tony MacAlpine yesterday, and here's something from her solo album. It's the title track "Through the Looking Glass", and it's a pretty awesome song!

The new Black Sabbath album 13 hits stores on Tuesday, June 11th, and their North American tour kicks off in Houston on July 25th at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion! This is the first full Sabbath album to feature Ozzy on vocals in thirty-five years, and the first since Never Say Die. I'm a big Sabbath fan, so this is good news for me!

But even better, KLAQ can put your butt in an airplane and send you to Houston for the North American tour kickoff show! How?

The new Megadeth album Super Collider comes out on Tuesday! I've heard two songs from the album so far. The first one, "Super Collider", I wasn't over the moon about. It's a straight-forward rock song, something you might find on Risk-era Megadeth. Not horrible by any stretch of the imagination, but probably not a song that will be high on my playlist.

You know by now that I'm a huge music fan, and I love original music from local guys. As long as you're doing what you love to do, I'm down. Even if it's not something I'm really interested in, I still respect and dig that you're doing your thing. Keep at it! We need more people creating and doing new stuff.

Some of the people around town that I really like are all different, and range from jazz to reggae to rock to blues to metal...I'm down with all of it! Check out these guy, who are two of my favorite local musicians.

This week's Guitar Shredder for the Week is Nili Brosh. She's pretty hot, and can totally shred circles around most guitar players. She's in guitar-monster Tony MacAlpine's band, so you know she's good. She's also been in an El Paso favorite, the Iron Maidens!

The second day of Balloonfest is in the books, and I have to say I feel great about day two! I wrote here a couple weeks ago that I thought Sunday was going to be an amazing day that people will find themselves talking about for a long time.

I've been looking forward to Balloonfest Saturday ever since I found out about Tremonti being signed to play. I think he's an underrated guitar player, and a fantastic songwriter.

Mark and his band didn't disappoint, either! They hit the stage with some serious chops, and ferocity that I love to see a heavy band have. They really enjoy playing these song, have a lot of skill on their instruments, and really work on bonding with the crowd, trying to make sure the people watching are as big a part of the show as they are.

It's Friday, and Balloonfest is tomorrow, so make sure you're set to come check out Mark Tremonti opening day one of Balloonfest 2013! He's a great guitar player, and he sings pretty well, too! It's going to be a killer day tomorrow, with the local rock:

For those of you lucky enough to get into the incredibly quickly sold-out show at Tricky Falls a while back, you got to hear how these rigs sounded. And apparently, you guys loved it. Even if you didn't get to go, like me, you might find this tour of all the band's gear pretty cool. How do they get the sounds for the songs, what guitars do they use?

Here's a nice video compilation of several of Mark's killer solos all in one place. He rocks several, including "Blackbird", "Wayward One", "Brand New Start", "Buried Alive" and more! This video gives some fantastic close-up work of what he's doing, in case you want to learn what he's playing, or just get a good look.

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